Stone Age Economics

Author:Marshall Sahlins

ISBN 13:9780202010991

ISBN 10:202010996

Edition:N/A

Publisher:Aldine Transaction

Publication Date:1974-12-31

Format:Paperback

Pages:348

List Price:$35.95

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Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Stone Age Economics includes six studies that reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original affluent society. When it was originally published in 1974, E. Evans-Pritchard of the Times Literary Supplement noted that this classic study of anthropological economics "is rich in factual evidence and in ideas, so rich that a brief review cannot do it justice; only another book could do that."